A statutory minimum share of public trial money for surgery and radiotherapy
Surgery and radiotherapy cure more people than drugs but get a fraction of trial funding because there is no company sponsor. A rule would guarantee them a fixed share of public trial money.
Public trial funders (NCI's NCTN, NIHR, EU programmes) would set a floor, for example 25%, for trials whose primary intervention is surgical, radiotherapeutic, interventional or a care-pathway change. The floor is justified because private sponsors fund almost all drug phase 3s but essentially no non-drug ones, so public money should preferentially cover the market failure. The quota would be paired with core funding for surgical and radiotherapy trials units and quality assurance.
- Funding follows fashion, not burden · Money goes to the cancers and questions that are easy or popular, not the ones that kill most or where a dollar would do most.
- Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least · Surgery and radiotherapy cure more people than drugs do, but attract a fraction of the research investment.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- PersonAnanya Choudhury
Shares The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Core-funded radiotherapy trials infrastructure with central quality assurance, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- IdeaPay per course of radiotherapy, not per session, so short courses are not penalised
Shares Core-funded radiotherapy trials infrastructure with central quality assurance, SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- IdeaPrizes for unpatentable surgical and radiotherapy techniques proven in trials
Shares A permanently funded international network for randomised cancer surgery trials, Robotic & minimally invasive surgery, SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least.
- PersonUwe Oelfke
Shares Core-funded radiotherapy trials infrastructure with central quality assurance, The Royal Marsden, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- IdeaEvening and weekend trial clinics for working-age patients
Shares The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal Marsden.
- IdeaMake one-week radiotherapy the default in overloaded systems
Shares SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy), Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least, IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- InstitutionRajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre
Shares Robotic & minimally invasive surgery, SBRT / SABR (stereotactic radiotherapy), IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam).
- PersonTakeshi Sano
Shares A permanently funded international network for randomised cancer surgery trials, Robotic & minimally invasive surgery.